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Set up a hyperconverged infrastructure with open source tools

opensource.com - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 16:00

A modern infrastructure's needs are ever-growing. As demand grows for scaling up applications, our existing servers and storage are no longer enough. This is the point when most businesses look at setting up a virtualized environment on-premises or turning to public cloud infrastructure. But the cost of setting up your own environment or running it on the public cloud can be daunting.

Fortunately, it is entirely possible to run a full-featured virtualization environment with completely open source products without burning a hole in your pocket.


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Practice coding in Groovy by writing a game

opensource.com - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 16:00

You see the same basic concepts in most programming languages, such as:


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How to Install PHP 8 on CentOS/RHEL 8/7

Tecmint - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 13:46

PHP is a popular open-source server-side scripting language that is integral in developing dynamic webpages. PHP 8.0 is finally out and was released on November 26th, 2020. It promises lots of improvements and optimizations

The post How to Install PHP 8 on CentOS/RHEL 8/7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Vulkan Comes To Apple Silicon GPUs / M1 By Means Of MoltenVK 1.1.1

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 13:00
While Apple continues to drive their own Metal graphics/compute API, Vulkan support built atop Metal continues to mature thanks to the open-source MoltenVK project. With the MoltenVK's latest update is now support for Apple Silicon with the M1's new GPU...

AMD Opens Up The Code To Its Radeon Memory Visualizer

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 07:42
Back in May was AMD's celebration of the GPUOpen re-launch and that included the introduction of the Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV) as their newest tool at the time. But rather strange for being a "GPUOpen" development tool is that it was Windows-only and not actually open-source. Today that has now changed with Radeon Memory Visualizer going open-source...

Cyberpunk 2077 Can Run On Linux With Steam Play's Proton 5.13-4

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 05:06
The highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 game will run on Linux on launch day by means of Steam Play!..

Mesa 21.0 Begins Landing Optimizations For AMD Smart Access Memory

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 01:09
While AMD Smart Access Memory has already been supported under Linux for some time with its resizable BAR functionality, only now with all the excitement around the feature being promoted with the Ryzen 5000 series and Radeon RX 6000 series hardware is the Mesa driver code beginning to see some optimizations for it...

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